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title: "Award Categories"
url: https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/award-categories/
description: "How recognition slates are divided, and what each division normally covers."
---

# Award Categories

[Index](https://internationalgamingawards.com/) › [Categories](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/) › Award Categories

A category slate is the published list of divisions a recognition programme will judge in a given cycle. Slates are rebuilt regularly because the trade itself keeps changing shape, and a division that made sense when a sector was young is often folded into a broader heading once the field grows crowded. The entries below describe the divisions that recur most often, in general terms, and explain what kind of submission each one usually expects.

[A](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-a)

B

[C](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-c)

[D](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-d)

[E](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-e)

F

G

H

[I](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-i)

[J](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-j)

K

[L](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-l)

M

[N](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-n)

[O](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-o)

[P](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-p)

Q

[R](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-r)

[S](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-s)

[T](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-t)

U

[V](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-v)

[W](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-w)

X

Y

Z

## Entries in this branch (6)

- Operator divisionsDivisions covering businesses that run gaming activity directly, usually split by channel and by the scale of the operation rather than by turnover.
- Supplier and platform divisionsDivisions for the firms that build and licence the underlying systems, including content studios, aggregation layers and back-office tooling.
- Product and title divisionsDivisions judged on a single released product rather than on the business behind it, which changes the shape of the evidence a submission has to carry.
- Individual recognitionDivisions that recognise a role rather than a company, normally with a nomination route separate from the standard entry route.
- Compliance and player-protection divisionsDivisions covering safer-play tooling, verification systems and regulatory reporting, judged mainly on documented process.
- Special and discretionary divisionsDivisions held outside the open entry process and decided by the programme itself, often with no published shortlist stage.

## Elsewhere in the tree

- [Judging and Criteria](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/judging-and-criteria/) (6)
- [Industry Sectors](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/industry-sectors/) (6)
- [Regions and Circuits](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/regions/) (4)
- [Terminology and Process](https://internationalgamingawards.com/glossary/) (15)

## Resource records

- [Award category terminology](https://internationalgamingawards.com/records/award-category-terminology/)
- [Judging panel structures](https://internationalgamingawards.com/records/judging-panel-structures/)
- [Entry and submission process](https://internationalgamingawards.com/records/entry-and-submission-process/)
- [Responsible play in category design](https://internationalgamingawards.com/records/responsible-play-context/)

## Directory tools

- [Full A-Z index](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/)
- [Glossary of terms](https://internationalgamingawards.com/glossary/)
- [All categories](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/)
- [How this index is arranged](https://internationalgamingawards.com/help/)